Responding to Jana Reddy's decision to leave the Congress Legislature Party leader's post to maintain the prestige of the party, Hanumantha Rao said it's good riddance if some leaders such as Sukhender Reddy, G. Vinod, G.Vivek and Bhaskar Rao left the party. It should be deemed as thieves and knaves leaving the party.

The Congress was now in deep trouble. It's time for all good men such as Jana Reddy to come to the aid of the party. If Jana Reddy leaves the position, the party cadre would be discouraged. Hence he should lead the party to a better position.

Coming down heavily on the TRS government, VH said it had turned Telangana into an alcoholics paradise.